Chapter 512 It Turns Out to Be Here (Two-in-One Please Vote!)

Chen Yan quickly walked to the landscape painting. This painting was hanging on the wall. He twisted a corner and opened the entire painting.

result……

What caught his eye was still a white wall, and Chen Yan even touched it in disbelief.

Solid, nothing fishy about it.

Gan!

Chen Yan really felt like he was about to burst at this moment.

what's going on? There is still a white wall behind the painting, and there is nothing suspicious about it. The wall is solid, with no hidden grids, no holes, nothing.

Where will it be hidden?

In front of the landscape painting, Chen Yan paced back and forth, frowning and looking back and forth with his eyes.

Every detail of the entire study was decomposed in Chen Yan's mind.

Every wall, every piece of furniture, and even every floor tile flew through Chen Yan's mind.

Is there a problem?

have!

there must be.

If something can't be missing, it must still be in this house.

But where?

Roof?

Impossible. There were so many people in the house on the night of the crime. Who could put something in the ceiling?

Even if it is possible, where can I hide it?

Irritated, Chen Yan was irritable as never before.

There was a burning fire in my heart and I didn't know how to vent it.

However, the more agitated Chen Yan became, the clearer the image in Chen Yan's mind became.

Including the video that Chen Yan saw last night, everything in this study was presented in Chen Yan's mind. Chen Yan's brain was analyzing every person who came in and out, and the situation in every corner.

All the sounds in his ears seemed to be gradually moving away, and Chen Yan seemed to have entered a very strange state.

Pictures flashed in my mind at high speed, and every clue was reviewed.

The expressions of every person entering and leaving, every fold of clothing, are all vividly visible.

At this moment, Chen Yan suddenly had an illusion, as if his soul was out of body. There was one of himself staring high in the sky, and another of himself pacing back and forth in front of the landscape painting.

The noisy sounds around him both faded away and appeared strangely clearly in Chen Yan's perception.

The crisp sound of leather shoes hitting the floor tiles seemed to have a rhythm, guiding Chen Yan to think quickly and accurately analyze all the information in his mind.

Click!

However, for a moment, this rhythm was suddenly disrupted, and then quickly returned to normal.

Chen Yan, who continued to pace, didn't seem to care, but his brows became more and more frowning.

Click!

It was that special sound again that interrupted Chen Yan's thinking rhythm.

who is it?

Li Yun? Wang Beifang?

Chen Yan stopped and looked at the two of them, and found that they had walked out of the study and were talking outside.

It turned out that Li Yun had just discovered something strange about Chen Yan.

He has encountered this kind of situation before, not just occasionally, but often.

Whenever Li Yun encounters some cases and thinks that he has analyzed all the clues, but still has not advanced the case process, he will feel this kind of irritation.

That feeling of being so powerful and not knowing how to use it is particularly uncomfortable.

It's like a powder keg about to explode.

At this time, Li Yun knew that he must not disturb Chen Yan.

Otherwise, I will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.

Therefore, he took Wang Beifang out early.

Chen Yan, who was already very irritable, suppressed the anger in his heart and forced himself to calm down and continue thinking.

This is how people are, when they encounter setbacks or difficulties, the first thing they think of is the reasons for others.

Chen Yan had never encountered this kind of situation before, because he had never encountered such a dead end when solving cases before.

This feeling of having no way forward at all made Chen Yan very uncomfortable.

However, Li Yun and Wang Beifang were outside the room, so they could not disturb him, so Chen Yan could only suppress his anger.

The case still had to be solved, and this time, Chen Yan quickly entered the same state as before.

Click!

However, Chen Yan's thinking was soon interrupted again.

Opening his eyes blankly, Chen Yan was already out of anger.

But what is this sound?

Taking steps forward, Chen Yan was suddenly stunned.

Click.

Isn't this just the sound of my leather shoes touching the floor tiles?

Was he interrupted from thinking by his own footsteps?

How about playing?

Um?

wrong!

wrong!

its not right!

Chen Yan, who was suddenly stunned, turned around and looked at the floor tiles on the ground carefully.

The sound of footsteps has always been there, and it is impossible to suddenly interrupt his thinking. Even the rhythmic sound can better help Chen Yan think.

But why was he disturbed by his own footsteps?

Walking to the landscape painting again, Chen Yan paced back and forth.

However, unlike the previous two times, this time Chen Yan focused all his attention on his footsteps.

Click... click...

Hearing is strengthened and opened for the second time, allowing Chen Yan to deliberately distinguish the difference in the sound of each step.

Click!

Suddenly, Chen Yan stood still and looked at the floor tile under his feet in confusion.

The sound here...is wrong!

When Chen Yan stepped on the sound of this floor tile, Chen Yan felt some differences.

The sound of footsteps on this floor tile seemed a little hollow.

I looked up and saw that this floor tile was on the left edge of the landscape painting, directly below the couplet.

During the first two times of thinking, Chen Yan kept pacing back and forth under the landscape painting.

The place where I was interrupted twice was here.

Leaning down, Chen Yan carefully observed the floor tiles he had just stepped on.

Color, style and surroundings are no different.

However, when Chen Yan tapped the floor tile with his fingers, there was a more obvious hollow sound.

Echo!

Gan!

It’s so empty under this floor tile!

"Li Yun!"

"coming!"

Hearing Chen Yan's call, Li Yun immediately rushed over.

"Captain Chen, what are your instructions?"

"Find a fruit knife."

"OK!"

Three minutes later, Li Yun handed the fruit knife to Chen Yan's hand and watched as the other party inserted the tip of the knife into the gap between the square bricks.

Just pry!

A floor tile was lifted out.

"Hold!"

Li Yun couldn't help but cursed: "Is this place empty?"

Wang Beifang was standing behind Li Yun at this moment, looking at the hollow under the floor tiles that Chen Yaqi opened, and his eyes were also full of shock.

Obviously, he didn't know anything about this empty floor tile.

The rectangular size of the floor tiles should be 40 cm by 40 cm, and the cavity underneath should be 20 cm deep by visual inspection.

Such a big hole is said to contain a golden Buddha and 300,000 cash, plus some gold and jade.

Even hundreds of thousands more cash would be no problem.

"Gloves!"

Now that we know there is a hole underneath, we can basically determine how the suspect obtained it.

Taking the gloves handed over by Li Yun, Chen Yan carefully opened the floor tiles and carefully observed the hole.

Just one glance and his eyes lit up.

"Give me a pair of tweezers."

After a while, Li Yun looked at a gold earring on the tweezers with an excited expression.

"Fuck, I finally found it!"

Damn it, Li Yun has gained some experience this time.

Li Yun has handled at least 80 cases of theft, if not a hundred.

However, this is the first time I have seen someone playing so fancy.

Bury items directly under the tiles at the crime scene.

No wonder there is nothing in the video.

It turns out that they didn't take anything out at all, how could it be found in the video.

By this time, Guo Pan had also returned.

Confirmed, this gold earring is one of her jewelry.

Now that the hiding place has been found, all that's left is to catch the suspect.

This is much simpler.

First, have the earrings appraised to see if the other party has left fingerprints on them.

If so, compare it with the fingerprints of everyone that night, and that's it.

Of course, it’s okay if you don’t have fingerprints, and there are surveillance videos.

The other party apparently hid the golden Buddha under the floor tiles on the night of the 27th and took it out later.

As long as you look at the surveillance video from the 28th to the last few days, you can find out who stole this thing.

After leaving the Huanhai No. 1 villa area, Chen Yan did not go back to the detective team directly, nor did he follow Li Yun to collect fingerprints and check the videos after the 28th.

Chen Yan asked Li Yun on the way and dropped him off at the seafood market on Wanghai Road.

This place is the largest seafood wholesale market in Liancheng.

Although Liancheng is rich in seafood, it does not mean that you can eat authentic seafood everywhere.

When it comes to how to cook seafood, the most important thing is the umami flavor of the ingredients themselves.

Seafood fresh out of the sea, lively and vigorous, is delicious no matter how you prepare it.

If you want to buy the freshest seafood in Liancheng, there is only one place - the seaside.

Only on fishing boats returning from the sea can you buy the freshest seafood, and if you are lucky, you can even buy live hairtail.

Don’t underestimate common seafood like hairtail.

Hairtail production is very large and can be eaten anywhere in the mainland, especially in winter.

It can be said to be the most common seafood.

However, the vast majority of people have never seen what a live hairtail looks like in their lives.

Hairtails live in the deep sea and must survive in sea areas under a certain pressure.

This makes it difficult for hairtail to retain its vitality for a long time after being caught.

Because after going to sea, without suitable seawater pressure, hairtail cannot survive and will die soon.

All, even in Liancheng, most people eat hairtail after death.

The dead hairtail and the living hairtail are two different species when Chen Yan tastes them.

The taste is very different.

It was already noon today. Chen Yan didn't need to think about living hairtail, but he could still study other seafood.

Such as grouper, such as sea sausage, such as geoduck and so on.

Yes, Chen Yan is going to do it himself today to reward Sister Yu.

It's actually because last night, Sister Yu's voice became a little hoarse.

It is still necessary to make up for it.

Humming a little tune, Chen Yan started to wander around the seafood market with his hands behind his back.

Happy!

Just two words, happy.

When it comes to solving crimes, it's really hard to encounter difficult obstacles and dead ends.

Just like at Wang Beifang's house just now, Chen Yan felt like he was about to become a powder keg.

I'm so frustrated that I'm about to explode.

However, the size of the difficulty is directly proportional to the sense of accomplishment.

The more difficult the problem is to solve, the greater the sense of accomplishment after solving it.

Chen Yan hasn't felt this way for a long time.

The feeling of being helpless and unable to do anything about the case.

Just like Chen Yan's sense of accomplishment when he solved the case for the first time, after finding the problematic floor tile, Chen Yan felt that the whole world became brighter.

Life seems to be clear.

At this time, you must share it with your lover.

Actually, is this case really difficult?

On the one hand, it's really hard.

A golden Buddha, 300,000 in cash and some gold and jade jewelry.

Something worth two million disappeared without a trace, and it disappeared under everyone's noses. Of course, it would be difficult to detect.

Chen Yan had actually guessed all the possibilities, but after checking them one by one, he still found nothing.

On the other hand, it doesn't seem difficult.

Now it seems that as long as you watch the surveillance video after Guo Pan called the police on the 28th, you can naturally find out who stole the thing.

The suspect put things under the floor tiles between 8pm and 11pm on the 27th.

In other words, the suspect did not move the property out of the study that day.

When Guo Pan called the police on the 28th, the items were actually under the floor tiles under the landscape painting in the study.

When Li Yun and other town-level team members came to Wang Beifang's home for the first time, the things were actually still in the study.

Today, August 3, Chen Yan found this floor tile and when he opened it, there was only one earring left inside.

Therefore, the other party must have taken the things away during this period.

As long as Li Yun carefully looks at the surveillance records after the 28th, he should be able to find out who stole the things.

But, here's the problem.

The case has already happened, why would Li Yun watch the surveillance after the owner called the police?

Everyone, even Chen Yan, carefully watched the surveillance on the night of the 27th and the day of the 28th.

Because according to Guo Pan's confession, the things were lost during this time period.

Looking at future surveillance, it’s useless for him.

Li Yun was still careful, not only watching the surveillance on the 27th, but also the surveillance in the previous few days.

Because the other party is likely to step on the spot. In this case, some clues may be found in the surveillance.

It's a pity that Li Yun didn't notice it.

Because the other party doesn't have to step in at all.

The suspect actually came to hide the truth.

He put the things in the study, and after Guo Pan called the police and inspected all the scenes, he moved the things.

So damn smart!

Simply brilliant.

"Boss, how much does this flower crab cost?"

Little Sister Yu likes to eat the porridge made from it, so Chen Yan plans to make two of them.

"Twenty-eight one."

When he saw the business coming to his door, the boss greeted him enthusiastically: "Little brother, let me tell you, my Zhang San's seafood is very good, and I have the lowest price in the market!"

"Twenty-eight pieces, so expensive and the lowest price?"

Chen Yan picked up a crab leg and looked at it carefully.

It was really fierce, and the flower crab's claws almost caught itself.

"It's not expensive anymore. This was just delivered this morning. So, I sincerely buy it for twenty-six!"

"twenty five!"

The ones in the front sell it for twenty-six dollars. If you don't cut off a dollar, you won't have gone so far in vain.

"Oh, twenty-five doesn't make any money..."

Seeing the sad look on his boss's face, Chen Yan grinned: "Forget it, I'll go..."

"No, no, don't go. Twenty-five is twenty-five. How many do you want?"

"Four!"

"Okay, four flower crabs!"

"That transparent bag, don't fool me."

"Don't worry, I, Zhang San Seafood, are the most affordable."

In the entire seafood market, if there are a hundred sellers, then the hundred sellers are the most energetic, affordable and sophisticated.

Not a single profiteer.

Carrying a bag of seafood, Chen Yan took a taxi back home.

Shen Yunyi usually didn't go home at noon, and Chen Yan didn't call Sister Xiaoyu.

I ate something casually, and after lunch break, I started the happy life of a cook.

Finding a toothbrush, Chen Yan began to bathe the abalone.

It's a strenuous job, but Chen Yan likes it very much, humming a little tune and doing it.

The first dish today and the one that took the longest was the abalone.

Chen Yan is going to get abalone rice for Sister Yu.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, when the last portion of crab and seafood porridge was served, the door opened and Shen Yunyi, dressed in a cheongsam, also left work.

Her straight little nose couldn't help but twitch: "Wow, what delicious food did you make that smells so good?"

Snapped!

The elasticity was still very good. Chen Yan clapped his hands and quickly washed his hands and prepared to eat.

"It's annoying, my butt is swollen..."

"It's just a moment, why is it swollen?"

While Chen Yan was cooking in the afternoon, Li Yun had already solved the case.

On that earring, half a fingerprint was detected, belonging to Guo Pan's nephew Lu Zihao.

However, Lu Zihao was not the only one who stole things.

and Wang Beifang’s niece Wang Jianhong and nephew Wang Yichen.

On the night of the 27th, the three of them hid the golden Buddha, cash and jewelry under the floor tiles while Wang Beifang and other adults were not paying attention.

Video surveillance showed that on August 1, Wang Yichen took something out from under the floor tiles in the study room.

The reason why the three of them stole things was simple: to buy a sports car.

But he didn't have enough money, so he took up the idea of ​​​​Wang Beifang's family.

Chen Yan just listened casually. What happens next depends on Wang Beifang and Guo Pan.

Whether to prosecute or withdraw the case depends on their wishes.

Because there is a difference between stealing relatives' property and ordinary theft.

The most important thing is to look at the attitude of the owner.

Shaking his head, Chen Yan picked up the flower crab porridge: "Let's eat!"